Pokémon
Japanese media franchise
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| April 1 2025 |
Pokémon Jet
Garuda Indonesia introduced an Airbus A330-300 (PK-GPY) with a Pikachu wearing Batik, becoming the first Airbus widebody aircraft with a Pokémon-themed livery.
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| March 28 2025 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Journey Together set released, with prereleases starting March 15, marking the ninth set in the Scarlet & Violet series.
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| 2025 | Upcoming release of Pokémon Legends: Z-A for Nintendo Switch |
| 2025 | Set to voice Elsa Nautilus in The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom |
| February 25 2025 | Anthropic started streaming 'Claude Plays Pokemon', a homage to the original Twitch Plays Pokémon concept, with Claude playing Pokémon Red. |
| February 24 2025 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition at the Hofu Science Museum is scheduled to conclude.
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| January 17 2025 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Prismatic Evolutions set was released, featuring 'eeveelutions' and rare, exclusively illustrated cards, causing significant collector interest and scarcity.
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| 2024 | Creatures Inc. co-develops Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket for iOS and Android platforms with DeNA |
| 2024 | Pandoland published by WonderPlanet for iOS and Android |
| 2024 | Voices Runrūn in Puniru Is a Cute Slime |
| 2024 | Voiced Pi-Pi-chan in Ghost Cat Anzu. |
| 2024 |
Pokémon episodes
Pokémon anime series begins Season 27: The Search for Laqua, marking a new storyline in the Pokémon animated series.
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Hong Kong's Yekai0904 wins the Masters (17+) Pokémon World Championships
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Pokémon World Championships winners are Kevin Han (Juniors) from United States, Ray Yamanaka (Seniors) from Japan, and Luca Ceribelli (Masters) from Italy
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| 2024 |
Pokémon World Championships
Japan's team Fennel won the Pokémon World Championships, marking a significant victory for Japanese players including Haruki Yoshiura, Yuma Sato, Mashika Shirakawa, Yumeto Tanabe, and Shouki Takada.
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| 2024 | Online Pokémon Center stores for Australia and New Zealand were launched. |
| 2024 | Palworld released, the latest game in the monster-taming genre influenced by Pokémon |
| November 9 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum began its exhibition at the Hofu Science Museum in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
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| November 8 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Surging Sparks set was released, continuing to introduce Stellar Tera Pokémon ex and featuring themes from the Terarium setting.
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| October 2024 | Nearly a terabyte of data was stolen from Game Freak's servers, including development builds, source code, test sprites, code names for upcoming Pokémon games, and prototypes of unreleased game remakes. |
| September 13 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Stellar Crown set was released, focusing on Terastallized Pokémon and content from The Indigo Disk, featuring 175 cards including various rare card types.
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| August 2024 | Unauthorized access to Game Freak's servers resulted in a significant data breach. |
| August 2 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Shrouded Fable, the third extra set, was released focusing on the Kitakami region and featuring the Loyal Three legendary Pokémon from the Scarlet & Violet DLC: The Teal Mask.
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| July 19 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Gifu Prefectural Museum in Seki, Gifu, Japan
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| June 17 2024 | La Poste (France) issued a commemorative booklet containing 12 Pokémon-themed postage stamps. |
| May 24 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Twilight Masquerade set was released, featuring more Ancient and Future Pokémon and introducing Pokémon from the Kitakami region.
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| March 22 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Temporal Forces set was released, continuing the Ancient and Future Pokémon concept and reintroducing ACE SPEC cards from the fifth-generation set.
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| March 20 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Mifune Dinosaur Museum in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
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| March 1 2024 | The official Pokémon Instagram account posted a video featuring Omastar and Omanyte to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the original Twitch Plays Pokémon run. |
| February 27 2024 | Pokémon Legends: Z-A is announced by The Pokémon Company, set to release in 2025 as a prequel to X and Y. |
| February 22 2024 |
Pokémon Jet
Garuda Indonesia became the fourth non-Japanese airline to introduce a Pokémon Jet, with a Boeing 737-800 (PK-GMU) featuring water-themed Pokémon characters.
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| February 18 2024 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
The Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit at the Iwate Prefectural Museum reached 30,000 visitors.
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| January 26 2024 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Paldean Fates, the second extra set in the Scarlet and Violet era, was released with over 240 cards, including more than 100 Shiny Pokémon and 6 hyper rare cards.
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| January 11 2024 | Epilogue to The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero is released. |
| 2023 | Creatures Inc. develops Detective Pikachu Returns for Nintendo Switch |
| 2023 | Game Freak launched Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On! for iOS, macOS, and Nintendo Switch |
| 2023 | Takes on roles of Captain Pikachu and Sango in Pokémon Horizons: The Series, and voices Doku-Koala in The Family Circumstances of the Irregular Witch |
| 2023 |
Pokémon World Championships
At the end of the 2023 event, The Pokémon Company announced the return of the Pokémon World Championships to Hawaii for the first time since 2012.
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| 2023 |
Pokémon World Championships
United States team Luminosity Gaming won the Pokémon World Championships, featuring a similar lineup to the previous year with players including Angelo Huang, Kihyun Lee, William Byrnes III, Amrit Rama, and Sean Tucker.
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| 2023 |
Pokémon World Championships
United States's ItsAXN wins the Masters (17+) Pokémon World Championships
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| 2023 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Prerelease cards continued to be produced, with the Scarlet and Violet expansion marking the latest set in the ongoing series of 163 unique Prerelease cards.
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| December 19 2023 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Iwate Prefectural Museum in Morioka, Japan
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| December 14 2023 | The Indigo Disk DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is released. |
| December 8 2023 | The second permanent Pokémon Center outside of Japan opened in Taipei at the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi department store near Taipei 101. |
| November 3 2023 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
Scarlet & Violet: Paradox Rift set was released, featuring Ancient and Future variants of Pokémon and Trainer cards.
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| October 20 2023 | Pocket ni Boken o Tsumekonde, a live-action television drama produced by The Pokémon Company and TV Tokyo, premiered on TV Tokyo. |
| September 2023 |
Pokémon Jet
All Nippon Airways launched a Pokémon Jet (Boeing 777-381ER) showcasing Eevee and its various evolutionary forms.
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| September 23 2023 |
Pokémon Fossil Museum
Second part of Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibited at Gunma Museum of Natural History in Tomioka, Japan
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| September 22 2023 |
Pokémon Trading Card Game sets
The 151 extra set was released, focusing on the first 151 Pokémon and notably introducing the first Kadabra card since Skyridge.
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| September 12 2023 | The Teal Mask DLC for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is released. |
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